"The - writing is a kind of..." - Quote by John Updike
The - writing is a kind of act of aggression, and a person who is not aggressive in his normal, may I say, intercourse with humanity might well be an aggressive writer.
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“My transition from wanting to be a cartoonist to wanting to be a writer may have come about through that friendly opposition, that even-handed pairing, of pictures and words.”
“For whatever crispness and animation my writing has I give some credit to the cartoonist manque.”
“The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.”
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“One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.”
“I feel that I have had a blow; but it is not, as I thought as a child, simply a blow from an enemy hidden behind the cotton wool of daily life; it is or will become a revelation of some order; it is a token of some real thing behind appearances; and I make it real by putting it into words. It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole; this wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me; it gives me, perhaps because by doing so I take away the pain, a great delight to put the severed parts together.”
“I can't understand why you don't get any mail from me. Perhaps it's because I haven't been writing”
More on Aggression
“My objective was to hurt the other fighters. I wanted to hurt them. I wanted to be merciless. Man, I was a wild thing. It's kind of a drug, a rush.”
“Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!”
“I just want them to keep bringing guys on and I'am going to strip them of their health. I bring pain a lot of pain.”